Last week was a very difficult week for me, I was feeling so depressed and so dead inside out. I couldn't think clear and didn't want to do anything-even the things I enjoyed just a week before! I was so different, like a totally different person!
Thank goodness, I got more anti-depression med from my dr. on this Monday and I was able to put myself back together day by day.
But still, I felt something had changed, what used to be interesting to me is sill tasteless to me... And because I couldn't do anything last week, I have to deal with some consequnce now... And come down to it, I just don't know who I am and feel quite lost at the moment.
Any comment is appreciated but I'd really like to hear opinions from other bipolar people. Do you feel completely different toward a person / thing after been depressed? What do you do? What do you do when it come to something like "commitment" / "promise?" I found it hard to keep promise as I don't know what's going to happen to me.
2006-06-20 21:44:41 · 6 answers · asked by Lune 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
I am also bipolar so I can somewhat relate to how you feel. I get through each of the swings by reminding myself that it is temporary and will pass if I can just hang on long enough.. I also know what it is like to have that detached/possessed feeling with the identity crisis that comes along.. a feeling of being trapped within myself and it is frustrating to me that nobody has the power to show me the way out of the maze..
My only advice is that you do the nessary research online and find places with personal experiences of the people that share your gifted curse.. you will be surprised by how not alone you are in the world. Many people are suffering through it all just like you .. and they have developed their own individual ways of dealing with this gifted curse of an affliction.
I constantly remind myself that I did not choose to be this way, I absolve myself of the blame and responsibility. I encourage those around me to educate themselves of what it means or is to be bipolar to help them understand and cope with me and my occasional irrationality. Knowledge is the answer. Here are a couple websites that I find to motivate me in times of darkness and knock me down when I am rushing by the world like a possessed rocketship.
lots of blogs here...
http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/weblogs.html
personal accounts here...
http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/gettinghelp/helpothers/otherscope.cfm
Clinical reference here...
http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc66.html
more personal accounts here...
http://www.dbsalliance.org/Stories/StoriesBipolar.html
remember these things..
1. knowledge is power
2. you are not alone
3. it is just a phase of the illness.. it will pass
4. take your meds.. they keep the extremes away
5. take it day by day
Good luck.. feel free to contact me if you need to reach out to someone that can relate to it all
Good Luck :)
2006-06-21 02:17:16 · answer #1 · answered by lost_but_not_hopeless 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did your dr say your bipolar?? And you need to give the medicine a week or two to work.. they might need to adjust your dose. Did the physican suggest counsling in additon to you perscription if not you should seek it. There are many famous people who are bi polar they live productive and happy lives Patty Duke/ Anna I dont remember her real last name and Robert Redford. Any way there are may great sites out there with mental health info.. have you tried WEB MD?? and the association for the mentally ill would have a site just google the name and ask for web site info.. Good luck and you should call the dr to see if you need an adjustment to you medicine..
2006-06-21 04:53:05 · answer #2 · answered by Gummys Girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well just because we take our meds doesn't mean we will not be depressed it just means it won't be as harsh. I've taken my meds like I'm supposed to and yet I still am depressed for months at a time. Just stick with it and you'll be fine. don't worry once you get out of the depression everything will come back into focus.
Also if you have a gf or bf then try to get them to help you...although this will strain the relationship but if they are strong enough then it will ultimately strengthen it.
Get a friend to help you also or if you don't have a gf or bf.
2006-06-21 04:51:45 · answer #3 · answered by Chad B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep taking your meds and give it time. Nothing, but bad things happen overnight usually.
2006-06-21 04:48:42 · answer #4 · answered by quikzip7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stay on the meds. getting off of them changed you and it will take time for them to get back into your system, just apologize for your "mood swings" and hope your friends understand. and have faith it will get better.
2006-06-21 04:52:00 · answer #5 · answered by montanamom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should try and think positively,try to unwind and think clearly...that way you could reduce stress...
2006-06-21 05:27:26 · answer #6 · answered by worried 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋